ASEV-ES Announces Outstanding Achievement Award Winner
June 9, 2015
Wayne Wilcox
The American Society for Enology and Viticulture-Eastern Section (ASEV-ES) will present Wayne Wilcox with the 2015 Outstanding Achievement Award.
Throughout his career, Wilcox has delivered science-based guidelines that have allowed growers across the eastern region to manage diseases more efficiently and sustainably. His in-depth knowledge of the biology of fungal pathogens has been paramount to improving the timing of management over the course of the growing season.
A northern California native, Wilcox received his B.S. in horticulture and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from the University of California-Davis. Since 1984, he has been a professor at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva (Finger Lakes region), where he has led the grape pathology program for the past 21 years.
His Extension activities have focused on educational programs for grape growers, vineyard managers, winery owners, and private and public sector agricultural advisers on the identification, biology and management of infectious diseases. His research program is integrated with his Extension program, providing data for educational programs and opportunities to demonstrate specific concepts in the field.
Wilcox’s work is valued by the grape industry and colleagues alike for its impact, as demonstrated by his ASEV Best Viticulture Paper award in 2012 for research that correlated powdery mildew severity with canopy density. In 2015, he received the award again for his work on the persistence of sulfur spray residues during ripening and wine-making. In 2013, he received the Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research Best Viticulture Paper award for the optimization of a new technique to detect pathogens on grape berries before disease symptoms are visible.
Wilcox will receive the award at the 40th Annual ASEV-ES Conference in Dunkirk, NY, July 23-25, where he will also give a presentation called “Mold & Mildews, Spots & Rots: Grape Pathology in the East.”
More information about the conference is available on the ASEV-ES website.
Source: ASEV-ES news release
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